arriving at church

Jak and i started attending a new church a few months ago (right around easter), and in the last few months have made a few decisions and changes regarding church and stuff like that. i won't go into all the details here, but just the most recent part.

i've spent over a decade feeling too catholic for protestants and too protestant for catholics. i think i've (hopefully) found a place where i can be just enough of both. a church with catholic liturgy and protestant theology. a church where theology is found through liturgy and prayers instead of dogma. a church that affirms the historic ecumenical creeds (nicene, apostolic, and athanasian) and whose catechism is just skeletal enough to allow for conversation about just about everything beyond the creeds. a church that has a lot of room for lay ministry and doesn't discriminate by gender.

no, i don't agree with everything within the church, but it's a community that's open enough to have room for people like me who disagree with some stuff.

so this last sunday, i was received into the episcopal church. a church that lets me be anglo-catholic, enjoying catholic liturgy and practices while believing protestant theology.